Are student's grades correlated to extra curricular activities?
Arly Bratman
Article 1:
My scholarly journal that I found is entitled, "The Effects of Extracurricular Activities on the Academic Performance of Junior High Students" by Kimiko Fujita. This research looks at the participation of junior high school students in extracurricular activities and how it affects their academics. The study was done on 6th through 8th grade students at Walnut Creek Christian Academy in the 2004-2005 school years. The study did show that depending on what type of Extracurricular activity is done, depends of the academic change in performance.
I found this article to be very interesting. I feel as if had always been taught to believe that the best activities for students to be involved in were musical activities yet this study had shown that according to students, "playing sports, watching television, and participating in community service improves academic performance, while playing a musical instrument does not improve academic performance". This part of the article truly states that it really depends on what extracurricular activities. Without any extracurricular activities students are put at an even greater disadvantage to succeed in school as well.
Article 2:
My ERIC Digest article is titled, "Academic Effects of After-School Programs. ERIC Digest." by Lee Shumow. This article discusses all aspects of the importance of Extracurricular Activities as well as the consequences of missing them. The part of this article that I found most interesting was when they focused on the study done in 1999, by Posner and Vandell. This study looked at the low-income and working-class urban who attended after school programs in a more non-sport oriented activity. The study focused on students that were in 5th grade over a 3 year period. The study showed that "For the low-income African-American children in their sample, time doing nonsport extracurricular activities after school was associated with better teacher-reported emotional adjustment in school, time socializing was associated with better academic grades and work habits, and time in coached sports was associated with lower academic grades (Posner & Vandell, 1999). For the White children in their sample, time in unstructured activities outside was associated with lower report card grades, poorer work habits, and poorer teacher-reported emotional adjustment in school."
I found that this was the most interesting due to the idea that coached sports had actually not positively affected students while meeting with teachers had provided a more positive academic achievement for the African-American children studied. The White students that were student found that unstructured activities outside of school was associated with lower grades, poorer work habits an a poorer emotional adjustment in school. I found this to be most interesting due to the differences in race and how that was an affect on the students results of extracurricular activities.
Shumow, L. Academic Effects of After-School Programs. ERIC Digest. . . Information Analyses---ERIC Information Analysis Products (IAPs) (071); Information Analyses---ERIC Digests (Selected) in Full Text (073); , . Retrieved December 4, 2008, from http://www.ericdigests.org/2002-2/after.htm.
Article 3:
My Analysis from a magazine is from the New York Times. The article is titled, "The Extracurricular and Grades" by Maura Casey. This article focuses on Ledyard High School, and the requirements that most students must keep in order to participate in extracurricular activities. The article states that the students had to keep a C-minus average in order to participate in any extracurricular activity. Once this policy was instated nearly 18% of the students became ineligible for numerous activities. This new rule had pulled 16 football players off the field because their grades were to low, and unfortunately they had missed out on the last two games of the season. The article continues to discuss the positives of their new enforcement and how it is truly bringing up the grades of students as well as the positives of extracurricular activities as a whole. Without the extracurricular activities these students become at a great disadvantage to do well because of the lack of rules and structure that the activities provide.
I believe that this article truly grasps the idea of extracurricular activities and their importance. Without them theses students become at a great disadvantage to succeed. It becomes hard for students to do well when there is not much behind them pushing them. Many students want to participate in these activities and they know that in order to do so they must do well in school. Overall, I believe that without extracurricular activities students are put at a disadvantage to succeed in school.
Article 4:
One of my opinion articles is titled, "Extracurricular activities ease stress, improve grades" by Arielle of Westwood High School. This article is about schools in North Jersey and their opinions of extracurricular activities. The article discusses how the presence of extracurricular activities is crucial to the success of the students. It claims that the extracurricular activities provide a schedule for the students as well as punishment for if they do not do well in school. Although the article also does discuss how the extracurricular activities are taking over much time of the day and are creating more stress for students, the positive affects of the extracurricular activities are dominant.
I believe that this article proves how important extracurricular activities are. It is greatly unfortunate that many students lack extracurricular activities in their schools. It is clear from this article that these activities are proving great success with the students and is ultimately bringing better grades to students as opposed to those students that are not participating in extracurricular activities. I believe that this article truly shows the positive affects of extracurricular activities and with a lack of them, it is hard to find success in students in terms of their academics.
Article 5:
My other opinion article was a video. The video was titled, "What extracurricular activities do charters sometimes lack?" Within the minute long video, Dr. Ref Rodriguez discusses how the breakdown of spending is and how extracurricular activities get cut. This video agrees with the idea that without extracurricular activities students are not as successful as students that have extracurricular activities in their schools. Charter schools tend to lack many of the extracurricular activities which are then limiting the success that students may achieve when those activities are offered.
I believe that this video was very informative within the ideas of charter schools. I feel as if I did not know much about charter schools and this video has proved that it makes no difference what type of school one is focusing on that extracurricular activities are just as important no matter what. I feel that with a lack of extracurricular activities students are put at a great disadvantage in terms of academics. These extracurricular activities are truly providing great success to students that have them and with the lack of them it becomes harder to succeed.
Are student's grades correlated to extra curricular activities?
Arly Bratman
Article 1:
My scholarly journal that I found is entitled, "The Effects of Extracurricular Activities on the Academic Performance of Junior High Students" by Kimiko Fujita. This research looks at the participation of junior high school students in extracurricular activities and how it affects their academics. The study was done on 6th through 8th grade students at Walnut Creek Christian Academy in the 2004-2005 school years. The study did show that depending on what type of Extracurricular activity is done, depends of the academic change in performance.
I found this article to be very interesting. I feel as if had always been taught to believe that the best activities for students to be involved in were musical activities yet this study had shown that according to students, "playing sports, watching television, and participating in community service improves academic performance, while playing a musical instrument does not improve academic performance". This part of the article truly states that it really depends on what extracurricular activities. Without any extracurricular activities students are put at an even greater disadvantage to succeed in school as well.
Fujita, K. Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences. Kon.org. Retrieved December 4, 2008, from http://www.kon.org/urc/v5/fujita.html.
Article 2:
My ERIC Digest article is titled, "Academic Effects of After-School Programs. ERIC Digest." by Lee Shumow. This article discusses all aspects of the importance of Extracurricular Activities as well as the consequences of missing them. The part of this article that I found most interesting was when they focused on the study done in 1999, by Posner and Vandell. This study looked at the low-income and working-class urban who attended after school programs in a more non-sport oriented activity. The study focused on students that were in 5th grade over a 3 year period. The study showed that "For the low-income African-American children in their sample, time doing nonsport extracurricular activities after school was associated with better teacher-reported emotional adjustment in school, time socializing was associated with better academic grades and work habits, and time in coached sports was associated with lower academic grades (Posner & Vandell, 1999). For the White children in their sample, time in unstructured activities outside was associated with lower report card grades, poorer work habits, and poorer teacher-reported emotional adjustment in school."
I found that this was the most interesting due to the idea that coached sports had actually not positively affected students while meeting with teachers had provided a more positive academic achievement for the African-American children studied. The White students that were student found that unstructured activities outside of school was associated with lower grades, poorer work habits an a poorer emotional adjustment in school. I found this to be most interesting due to the differences in race and how that was an affect on the students results of extracurricular activities.
Shumow, L. Academic Effects of After-School Programs. ERIC Digest. . . Information Analyses---ERIC Information Analysis Products (IAPs) (071); Information Analyses---ERIC Digests (Selected) in Full Text (073); , . Retrieved December 4, 2008, from http://www.ericdigests.org/2002-2/after.htm.
Article 3:
My Analysis from a magazine is from the New York Times. The article is titled, "The Extracurricular and Grades" by Maura Casey. This article focuses on Ledyard High School, and the requirements that most students must keep in order to participate in extracurricular activities. The article states that the students had to keep a C-minus average in order to participate in any extracurricular activity. Once this policy was instated nearly 18% of the students became ineligible for numerous activities. This new rule had pulled 16 football players off the field because their grades were to low, and unfortunately they had missed out on the last two games of the season. The article continues to discuss the positives of their new enforcement and how it is truly bringing up the grades of students as well as the positives of extracurricular activities as a whole. Without the extracurricular activities these students become at a great disadvantage to do well because of the lack of rules and structure that the activities provide.
I believe that this article truly grasps the idea of extracurricular activities and their importance. Without them theses students become at a great disadvantage to succeed. It becomes hard for students to do well when there is not much behind them pushing them. Many students want to participate in these activities and they know that in order to do so they must do well in school. Overall, I believe that without extracurricular activities students are put at a disadvantage to succeed in school.
Casey, M. (1997, January 19). The Extracurricular and Grades - New York Times. The New York Times. Online Newspaper, . Retrieved December 4, 2008, from http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E4D71E38F93AA25752C0A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2.
Article 4:
One of my opinion articles is titled, "Extracurricular activities ease stress, improve grades" by Arielle of Westwood High School. This article is about schools in North Jersey and their opinions of extracurricular activities. The article discusses how the presence of extracurricular activities is crucial to the success of the students. It claims that the extracurricular activities provide a schedule for the students as well as punishment for if they do not do well in school. Although the article also does discuss how the extracurricular activities are taking over much time of the day and are creating more stress for students, the positive affects of the extracurricular activities are dominant.
I believe that this article proves how important extracurricular activities are. It is greatly unfortunate that many students lack extracurricular activities in their schools. It is clear from this article that these activities are proving great success with the students and is ultimately bringing better grades to students as opposed to those students that are not participating in extracurricular activities. I believe that this article truly shows the positive affects of extracurricular activities and with a lack of them, it is hard to find success in students in terms of their academics.
Arielle. (2008, November 4). NorthJersey.com: Extracurricular activities ease stress, improve grades. www.northjersey.com. Online Newspaper, . Retrieved December 4, 2008, from http://www.northjersey.com/education/listenup/Extracurricular_activities_ease_stress_improve_grades_.html.
Article 5:
My other opinion article was a video. The video was titled, "What extracurricular activities do charters sometimes lack?" Within the minute long video, Dr. Ref Rodriguez discusses how the breakdown of spending is and how extracurricular activities get cut. This video agrees with the idea that without extracurricular activities students are not as successful as students that have extracurricular activities in their schools. Charter schools tend to lack many of the extracurricular activities which are then limiting the success that students may achieve when those activities are offered.
I believe that this video was very informative within the ideas of charter schools. I feel as if I did not know much about charter schools and this video has proved that it makes no difference what type of school one is focusing on that extracurricular activities are just as important no matter what. I feel that with a lack of extracurricular activities students are put at a great disadvantage in terms of academics. These extracurricular activities are truly providing great success to students that have them and with the lack of them it becomes harder to succeed.
Dr. Ref Rodriguez. What extracurricular activities do charters sometimes lack? Drawbacks To Charter Schools (Education: Charter Schools). VideoJug. Video Database, . Retrieved December 4, 2008, from http://www.videojug.com/expertanswer/drawbacks-to-charter-schools-2/what-extracurricular-activities-do-charters-sometimes-lack.
What extracurricular activities do charters sometimes lack?
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